Heritage Month is celebrated annually from 1 to 30 September.
This years’ Heritage Month will be celebrated under the theme, “Celebrating South Africa’s literary classics in the year of indigenous languages”. The theme is in line with UNESCO’s declarations of 2019...

STATEMENT DELIVERED BY H.E. AMBASSDOR RAPULANE MOLEKANE, PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF THE REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA, AT THE 53RD SESSION OF WORKING GROUP B (WGB) OF THE COMPREHENSIVE TEST-BAN TREATY ORGANISATION (CTBTO), 26 AUGUST 2019

Your Excellency, President Emmanuel Macron,

Excellencies, Heads of State and Government,

Ladies and Gentlemen,

This Summit’s focus on reducing inequality is particularly relevant for the G7 and Africa...

HE Rapulane Molekane, Permanent Representative of the Republic of South Africa, presented his credentials to Mr. Yury Fedotov, Director-General of the United Nations Office at Vienna (UNOV), on Wednesday, 21 August 2019.

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HE Rapulane Molekane, Permanent Representative of the Republic of South Africa, presented his credentials to Dr Lassina Zerbo, Executive Secretary of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO), on Monday, 19 August 2019.

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HE Rapulane Molekane, Permanent Representative of the Republic of South Africa, presented his credentials to Director General Li Yong of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), on Friday, 16 August...

Every year, in August, our country marks Women’s Month. We also pay tribute to the more than 20 000 women who marched to the Union Buildings on 9 August 1956 in protest against the extension of Pass Laws to women. A system meant to control women even further and reduce...